1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:00,760 Speaker 1: Rochester. 2 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:02,760 Speaker 2: When you make a left turn, you're supposed to stick 3 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 2: out your hand. I did that last time, and then 4 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: Steven Will. 5 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 3: Went with it. 6 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 4: Ron an Inian, it was kind of exciting because our 7 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:11,879 Speaker 4: Hunter tire machine just date them up, just mounting them 8 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 4: upon the machine. 9 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 5: Bang zoo. I know it's a good machine because I 10 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 5: don't hear Danny complain. 11 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 4: Anymore about trying to get the tires mount He just 12 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 4: he likes using the machine that sold levers and arrows, 13 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 4: and you know he's having a good time back there. 14 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 3: Well, we ought to have grapes. 15 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 5: I'm kind of throwing it ain't. 16 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 4: Rout the car Doctor, you know, Mary Beth I said 17 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 4: this for a while. The whole keyfop thing to me 18 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 4: is a little extreme because if they want the car, 19 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:33,559 Speaker 4: they're going to figure out a way to get it. 20 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,520 Speaker 5: And yeah, it ends up corusting all. 21 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 4: Of you and all of us, you know, a whole 22 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,959 Speaker 4: bunch more money to keep the car allegedly safe than 23 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 4: it actually is. 24 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:45,880 Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron Ananian, the Car Doctor. 25 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety one. This is where car owners the 26 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. 27 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up 28 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: the phone and call in the. 29 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 4: Garage doors open, but I am here to take your 30 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 4: call at eight five five five six ninety nine. 31 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 6: Hundred and now pee. 32 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: Running. 33 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 5: I don't think. 34 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 4: There's any other place we can start this weekend talking 35 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 4: about anything automotive other than geez. You know, we were 36 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 4: on the we were on watching TV this morning and 37 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 4: watching the weather reports coming in from the southeast with 38 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:27,639 Speaker 4: Hurricane Helene, and just number one, our hearts and thoughts 39 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 4: go out and prayers go out to you guys that 40 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 4: are down there and going through it, and hang in there. 41 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 4: You know, it'll it'll, it'll get better and helps on 42 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 4: the way, as they say. But from an automotive point 43 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 4: of view, I look at the rampaging and the water, 44 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 4: and you know, probably the least desirable thing to do 45 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 4: is to get a vehicle as wet as they are getting. 46 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 4: Even the cars that are surviving, even the cars that 47 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 4: sat outside through the storm that didn't get flooded. You 48 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 4: just wonder what the long term effect is being out 49 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 4: in that weather all the time. Because it's it's some 50 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 4: crazy weather. I mean, backyards are becoming rivers and you know, 51 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 4: small streams are becoming rivers, and it's it's just unbelievable. 52 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 4: It's just and I wanted to talk, you know, I 53 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 4: started thinking about it. And you know, when you have 54 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 4: to evacuate if you're if you're in that part of 55 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:20,679 Speaker 4: the country, and you know, it's it's they say, hey, 56 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:21,799 Speaker 4: mandatory evacuations. 57 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 5: Although this storm came. 58 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 4: Up through the southeast through you know, Georgia, above Atlanta 59 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 4: and Ashville, North Carolina, and now it's heading over to 60 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 4: Ohio in the next couple of days, and you know, 61 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:34,239 Speaker 4: not the places where you think you're going. 62 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 5: To get weather like this. 63 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 4: It kind of makes the argument and the case for 64 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 4: you know, being prepared, being a good scout. You know, 65 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,799 Speaker 4: what kind of shape is the vehicle, and it's it's 66 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 4: you know, when we are heading into fall and then 67 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 4: winter and you know, rougher driving conditions and you know, 68 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 4: has the vehicle been checked out. It's even if it's 69 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 4: a newer vehicle, but if it's an older vehicle, and 70 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 4: by older, let's define it something in that three to 71 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 4: five year range and older, you know, battery breaks, fluids. 72 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 4: You know when they say you gotta go, baby, you 73 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 4: gotta go, and there's there's no fooling around. It's just 74 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 4: something to be aware of. And then I started thinking about, 75 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 4: you know what about the cars that are flooded, and 76 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 4: will you just go back and try to start it? 77 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 4: Can you go back and try to start it? Should 78 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 4: you go back and try to start it? You know, 79 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 4: I think before I started a vehicle that was flooded, 80 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 4: I would at least take the air intake ducked off. 81 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 4: Is there any water in it? Does it look like 82 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 4: because you have to be worried about ingesting water into 83 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 4: the engine. You ingest water into the engine and you're 84 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 4: gonna hydra lock or damage the engine basically because water 85 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 4: is not compressible as a liquid. No liquid is compressible 86 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 4: in the sense of an internal combustion engine. And you 87 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 4: put water into a cylinder and you go to crank it, 88 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 4: it's going to compress and break something. So there's a 89 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 4: danger there. Do I think you can get it started 90 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 4: if it's been flooded, If there's no if there is, 91 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 4: you know, it depends on the vehicle, obviously, it depends 92 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 4: on the vehicle's condition. To manufacturers do a decent job 93 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 4: in a lot of cases of water proofing vehicles. But 94 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 4: if water got into the inside of the car and 95 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 4: the water level was halfway up the door panel, I 96 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 4: guarantee you half the computers in that car are flooded out. 97 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 4: And even though it may start, you've got to have 98 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 4: a concern with you know, long term damage, corrosion on 99 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 4: the circuit boards, and you know what will you find 100 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 4: out three to six months from now. 101 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 5: You look at the electric. 102 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 4: Vehicles, and I've got to say, the people that are 103 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 4: up on social media the past couple of days breaking 104 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 4: about how they were able to get their electric vehicles 105 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 4: charged and not have to worry about gasoline with the 106 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 4: coming storm, I'm wondering how they're making out because now 107 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 4: the place is where the coming storm is, there's no 108 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:56,359 Speaker 4: electricity to charge those vehicles. While the people with gasoline 109 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 4: engines are pouring five gallons of fuel in the tank 110 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 4: from a can that they fill up and driving where 111 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 4: I don't think the electric vehicle people are building up 112 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 4: with five gallons or electrons, if you know what I'm saying. So, 113 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 4: but you've got to worry about long term damage. You've 114 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 4: also got to I started thinking about the number of dealerships, 115 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:16,919 Speaker 4: the number of cars new and used that were in 116 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 4: the path of this storm and where they safely removed. 117 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 4: So if you're going out to buy a car in 118 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 4: the next couple of months and you're in that area, 119 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 4: and even if you're not in that area, right they 120 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 4: may ship flood damaged cars to other parts of the country, 121 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 4: You've got to be careful, you know, it's you've got 122 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 4: to look that vehicle over very very carefully, specifically, you know, 123 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 4: if it's a used vehicle on One of the biggest 124 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 4: things I like to do when I'm looking for a 125 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 4: used vehicle is, yeah, you get inside and does it 126 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 4: smell like mil do it? 127 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 5: They can erase that. But one of the things that. 128 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 4: They generally don't do is one of the things that 129 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 4: they generally don't do is look in the trunk of 130 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 4: the vehicle and they want don't clean out the spare tire. Well, 131 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 4: if it has one, you'll see you'll see a water 132 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 4: line like you'd see a water line in a basement. 133 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,160 Speaker 4: So just something to you know, look at and by 134 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 4: all means, if the vehicle has been flooded, depending upon 135 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 4: the severity of the flood and the condition, you want 136 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:20,479 Speaker 4: to you know, drain fluids, engine oil transmission fluids. As 137 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 4: funny as it sounds, cool it break fluid, all right, 138 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 4: All the fluids that are in that vehicle can be affected. 139 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 4: Gear oils, transfer cases, you know, front and rear differentials, 140 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 4: that type of thing. It's going to be an ongoing 141 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 4: it's going to be an ongoing process. The the number 142 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 4: of vehicles affected, I know the number of people, the 143 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 4: number of houses, but the number of vehicles affected is 144 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 4: mind boggling. And it's going to take a long time 145 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 4: to climb out from this one. So just some common 146 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 4: sense and be safe and uh, you know, if you're 147 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 4: out in the area of the of the storm. And 148 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 4: as a side note, I started thinking to myself, not 149 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 4: car related, but you know, emerging to see preparedness and 150 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,720 Speaker 4: radios and how do you communicate. We were watching the 151 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 4: weather coming in on Fox News this morning and they 152 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 4: lost the signal because the reporter was broadcasting over cell 153 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 4: service in one of the cell towers or a few 154 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 4: of the cell towers went down. And you know, it 155 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 4: used to be it used to be a lot more 156 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 4: reliable than that. Let's see, Oh look who Tom's got 157 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 4: for me on the phone. 158 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 5: Let's go do this. 159 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 4: Let's welcome Howard Price. Howard is a friend of this 160 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 4: radio show and a personal favorite of mine, is here 161 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 4: to talk to us a little about emergency preparedness. Howard, boy, 162 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 4: this is the first. 163 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 3: Well, you know, as I'm sure brother Tom has told you, 164 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 3: i did spend a bit of my life as a 165 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 3: talk radio producer in Chicago, so I've been on the 166 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 3: other side of this equation, the side that the use 167 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 3: it on. And I've only been a guest a couple 168 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 3: of times. So this is a great privilege. The audience 169 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 3: always gets its money's worth when it to the car doctor, 170 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 3: that's for sure. And happy to help as I can 171 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 3: to to talk about preparedness and resilience and if you 172 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 3: needed any abject lesson in why everybody, everybody, regardless of 173 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 3: where you live, what you do, needs to be prepared 174 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 3: for emergencies. You know, Hurricane Helene is it? 175 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's we were watching and there's no shortage of water. 176 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 4: I mean, Saint Petersburg is like Venice right now. It's 177 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 4: just completely underwater. It's I've never seen it. I'm looking 178 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 4: at all the flooded cars and they're just floating around, 179 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 4: and you think about. 180 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 3: That, Here's what, Yeah, here's what's really interesting ron You know, 181 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 3: we say, you know the old saying water, water everywhere, 182 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 3: and not a drop to drink. That's kind of the 183 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 3: situation in a lot of communities because the flooding has 184 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 3: created electrical problems, it's created inundation in some of the 185 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 3: water treatment facilit these and so the water systems. You know, 186 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 3: you're looking outside and you see all this water and saying, 187 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 3: why can't why don't I have any drinking water? That's 188 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 3: the reason, right, And you know, water, food, particularly shelf 189 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 3: stable food. I mean, the rule of thumb is seventy 190 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 3: two hours of self sufficiency in any disaster. Why because 191 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 3: you don't know when the power is coming back, you 192 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 3: don't know when the floodwaters are going to reced, you 193 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 3: don't know how quickly emergency responders are going to be 194 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 3: able to get to you. So the general rule for 195 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 3: emergency planners is have self sufficiency for at least seventy 196 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 3: two hours at least three days. In fact, there's a 197 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 3: great website that is very popular, specifically on the West 198 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 3: Coast called seventy two hours dot org seventy two number, 199 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:56,719 Speaker 3: seventy two hours dot org, and it's designed there for 200 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 3: folks in California that obviously prepare for hurricanes and wildfires 201 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 3: and things like that. But really there's lots of great 202 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 3: information there at the FEMA website. Federal Emergency Management Agency UH. 203 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 3: Your local state, county, or town UH has usually an 204 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 3: emergency management page. You can go there and and you'll 205 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 3: find great checklists. The American Red Cross, so you see 206 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 3: the Salvation Army. You know, they all have resources that 207 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 3: are free that you can go to to build your 208 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 3: own emergency kit. It is so important and. 209 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 4: To be and to be because you just can't you 210 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 4: just can't expect what they're going through right now, you know, 211 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 4: in the Southeast, it's just it's just crazy, Howard, what 212 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 4: happens to? 213 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 5: Real quick? 214 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:47,679 Speaker 4: What happens to you know? What we see these news 215 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 4: reporters on TV. The vehicles they're out there in. Are 216 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 4: they specially prepared vehicles? What's what's your experience? What's your 217 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 4: You've you've seen them go through this assigning people out there? 218 00:10:58,320 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 4: Are they in danger? These reports? 219 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 3: Well, I for the benefit of your audience. I was 220 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 3: a new assignment editor for decades at one of the 221 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 3: nation's leading television stations, and I also did disaster planning 222 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 3: for them and for their television network, and so I 223 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 3: can tell you a little bit about that. We generally 224 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:24,199 Speaker 3: always made sure that as many people as we could 225 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 3: got first aid training, because when you're out there by yourself, 226 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,319 Speaker 3: you know you're going to be your own first responder 227 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 3: in a situation like this. Given all the experience that 228 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 3: most news organizations, larger national news organizations have covering disasters 229 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 3: like this, you know, they actually do have a strategy 230 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 3: and they have a plan. They know the type of 231 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 3: building that they need to stay in in terms of 232 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 3: lodging they need to they know where to park their 233 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,679 Speaker 3: vehicles so that the building acts as a buffer between 234 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 3: them and the elements. You'll generally see them renting four 235 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:08,320 Speaker 3: by fours rather than sedan's because those vehicles are better 236 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 3: able to navigate flooded streets and areas with a lot 237 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 3: of debris. 238 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 4: So they've got they've got a lot of they've got 239 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 4: a lot of thought that goes into this. Obviously, they're 240 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 4: not you know that they're not. You know, hey, Howard, 241 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 4: sit tight. I want to finish this conversation on the 242 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:25,199 Speaker 4: other side. Let's pull over and take a pause. I'm 243 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 4: running any in the car doctor. We've sort of got 244 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 4: a little interview here going with a personal friend of 245 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 4: this radio show, Howard Price. 246 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:32,040 Speaker 5: Will we'll be back right after this. 247 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 7: Don't go away when. 248 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 3: You get keep Ron's number handy eight five five five 249 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 3: six zero nine nine zero zero for when you really 250 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 3: need advice on your car. 251 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 2: Here's Rob. 252 00:12:58,200 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 5: Welcome back. 253 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 4: You know, we're sort of taking a little trip sideways 254 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:04,240 Speaker 4: here because of the storm Helene and the damage that 255 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:07,559 Speaker 4: it's caused. Where we started talking about, you know, emergency 256 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 4: preparedness in cars, and Tom was able to connect with 257 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:14,959 Speaker 4: Howard Price, a broadcast industry expert on emergency preparedness and 258 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 4: a friend of this radio show, and Howard and I 259 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 4: are just chatting. 260 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 5: Howard. 261 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 4: We were talking about the crews that are out there 262 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 4: in terms of the you know, the networks and reporting 263 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:29,080 Speaker 4: the news that I was watching Fox and the one 264 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 4: news reporter. She was in that same spot for three hours. 265 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:35,680 Speaker 4: It wasn't that much going on there. Is that just 266 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 4: because it's probably the safest place to be in that 267 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 4: part of North Carolina? 268 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 3: Well, I think that that's probably the case. Ron. You know, 269 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:47,559 Speaker 3: our first priority, in addition to you know, keeping our 270 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 3: audience informed, is to keep our people safe. That's actually 271 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 3: the number one priority. And so when we deploy crews, 272 00:13:55,720 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 3: we are always looking for safety, security and the ability 273 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 3: to operate. I think you mentioned, you know, in an 274 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 3: earlier introduction of this segment that you know, there were 275 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:14,840 Speaker 3: times where you know, signals seemed to disappear and you know, 276 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 3: people were reporting and then suddenly they weren't there and whatnot. 277 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 3: So today there's a lot of technology that we use. 278 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 3: It didn't exist really even you know, ten or fifteen 279 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 3: years ago, at least not in the way it exists now. 280 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 3: Basically backpacks that use a technology called cellular bonding, which 281 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 3: has been you know, basically a backpack filled with a 282 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 3: lot of cellular transmission equipment that can operate on any 283 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 3: available carrier. And so that's the first thing that you know, 284 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 3: we're probably going to use, is we're going to try 285 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 3: and get onto the cellular system to do our live shots. 286 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 3: When that doesn't work, there's a new enhancement of these 287 00:14:55,320 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 3: systems that actually have a satellite component. And again it's 288 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 3: you know, highly portable, and it's it allows us to 289 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 3: get on via satellite if we can't get on via cellular, 290 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 3: and you know, it's not cheap technology. It's expensive technology, 291 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 3: but it's not the same technology that we used to 292 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 3: have to use way back in the day. And you know, 293 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 3: you'll probably remember seeing these trailers with big satellite dishes 294 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 3: and trucks with big satellite dishes, you know, in order 295 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 3: for us to get a signal out or microwave masks 296 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 3: that were line of sight to a particular microwave receiver. 297 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 3: You know, we don't really use that much of that anymore. 298 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 3: We use this this bonded cellular technology, and we use 299 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 3: cellular via satellite, if you will, when when the terrestrial 300 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 3: system doesn't work. 301 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 4: You know, it's one thing I want to mention too, 302 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 4: and I'm sure you'll you'll back me up on this. 303 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 4: I was watching the news reporter this morning and she 304 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 4: was showing a spot in the road. It was water, 305 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 4: you know, there was the river had gone across the 306 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 4: huh highway, and yet cars were trying to some got stuck. 307 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 4: The danger of trying to cross a vehicle unless it's 308 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 4: prepared for high water because you don't know what's you 309 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 4: don't know what's underneath that water, you don't know how 310 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 4: deep that hole is. You could be driving into a 311 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 4: ten foot ravine because the water is washed out, so 312 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 4: the road becomes a danger unto itself. 313 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 3: That's true, and and and this is why you hear 314 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 3: the broadcast meteorologists saying over and over again during storms, 315 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 3: turn around, don't drown. It's a real hazard because you 316 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 3: cannot tell, you know, what, what's underneath the water that 317 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 3: you're driving into, how deep it is. And by the way, 318 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 3: in case people don't know, it does not take very 319 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 3: much moving water to basically sweep away a car. You'd 320 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 3: be surprised how little I believe the number is three 321 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 3: feet of water. 322 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 5: I believe you're right. 323 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 3: It maybe a little less that, but you know, a 324 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 3: rushing three feet of water will will sweep your car away, 325 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:07,919 Speaker 3: and there is nothing you can do to stop it now. 326 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 3: And I think one you may have mentioned in a 327 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 3: segment before I got on, I was listening a little 328 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 3: bit about electric vehicles. And the real problem with electric 329 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:23,159 Speaker 3: vehicles is the same problem that we have sometimes with 330 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:27,359 Speaker 3: any other kind of electricity. Electricity and water do not mix, 331 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 3: and these cars can short out and really leave you 332 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:35,679 Speaker 3: in a bind. But even you know, aside from just 333 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 3: shorting out, you know they can catch fire because of this, 334 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 3: and that's the. 335 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 4: Biggest and that's the biggest problem they're they're showing us. 336 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 4: In Florida, for example, a couple of houses have burned 337 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 4: completely to the ground as a result of evs catching 338 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 4: fire with the salt water and the corrosion and over time. 339 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:55,919 Speaker 5: How are to pleasure sir? We could go on and on. 340 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 4: Let me let me get back to regular programming, so 341 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 4: to speak. But I appreciate you taking the time and 342 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 4: being with us. Always always fun for you. You'd be well, 343 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 4: you'd be safe, A real gentleman, a giant in the 344 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:09,920 Speaker 4: broadcast industry. 345 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,359 Speaker 5: I'm running Enie in the car, Doctor. 346 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:43,119 Speaker 4: I'll be back right after this. Don't go away, Joey. 347 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 4: That was that was really great, right, Howard Price coming 348 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 4: on like that, that's so totally off the cuff. And 349 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 4: that's what I love about this radio show. I never 350 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 4: know what to expect on the other side of the 351 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 4: microphone to be interviewing someone the caliber of Howard. So 352 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 4: again we thank him for his time. Let's get the 353 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,440 Speaker 4: phones going A five, five, five, six, nine nine zero zero. 354 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:04,400 Speaker 4: Let's go to Merry in Virginia nineteen seventy five, AMC Hornet, Mary, 355 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 4: how are you today? 356 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 5: What can I do to help? 357 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,159 Speaker 2: Well, I'm fine. I have been really enjoying your radio 358 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 2: show every years, so now I have a real problem. 359 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,959 Speaker 2: I'm hoping you can give me some good advice. So 360 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 2: I wanted to remove some transmission fluid because it looked 361 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:31,160 Speaker 2: way over the ad mark on the dipstick. And so 362 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 2: I used a Lubri construction gun, which this is something 363 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:40,199 Speaker 2: I picked up in the directions say use it to 364 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 2: remove fluid in the transmission yeah, and other you know, 365 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 2: like rest of air with steering fluid or break. So anyway, 366 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 2: it actually just looks like a plastic tube that you 367 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 2: would insert where the dipstick goes, right, and it looks. 368 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 4: Like it looks like on the other side, it's a 369 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,640 Speaker 4: long barrel type cylinder on the other side to suck 370 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 4: the flu it out. 371 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 5: Correct. 372 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, the the what you insert into this, the where 373 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 2: the dipstick goes is only seven inch row on, which 374 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 2: is not long enough. So it does come with a 375 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:22,879 Speaker 2: another tube that would connect. They're basically two tubes that 376 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 2: are seven inch long each, and so I did connect 377 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:30,200 Speaker 2: them and fIF plastic tubes fall in the directions And 378 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 2: so what happened is then when I inserted it and 379 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:40,040 Speaker 2: then you're supposed to pull back on this. It sucks 380 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 2: a gunet looks like just a large syringch to withdraw 381 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 2: and no liquid came out. But I think it's all 382 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,360 Speaker 2: a dry area right there. It probably wasn't really down. 383 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 2: But anyway, for what happened is I took it out 384 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,040 Speaker 2: to see if I have fluid coming out into that 385 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 2: tube that I am So there was nothing, but the 386 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 2: extension part of the TV did not come out. It's 387 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 2: it was two tbs get hooked together. 388 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 4: It's stuck together inside the dipstick tube. 389 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's a real issue. It's really serious. I've 390 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:21,439 Speaker 2: been trying everything and you can't even put the the 391 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 2: regular dipstick back in. You know. 392 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 4: Can you see the top of the clear plastic tubes? 393 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 2: Well no, but I have something else that I was 394 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 2: gently swarmly in sitting down until I feel the top 395 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,400 Speaker 2: of the plastic tube, so I know that I can 396 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 2: touch the top of that tube. I'm trying to get 397 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 2: out after like seven inches. 398 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:50,639 Speaker 5: Okay, so you need something. 399 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 2: I can go down seven inches. 400 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 4: You need something seven inches long to grab the top 401 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 4: of these tubes, is what you're telling me. 402 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, I like some of the the if I was 403 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 2: trying when at the I picked up at an autistory, 404 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 2: which event so they have a like a grabber that 405 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 2: will go down into where the dipstick goes and then 406 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 2: and then you push the end and it opens up 407 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 2: and it wouldn't grab it. And I think maybe the 408 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 2: reason that wentn't grab it because on the end of 409 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,159 Speaker 2: this plastic tube I'm trying to get out, it's a 410 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 2: thick black a black rubber piece that goes around the 411 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 2: very end. And that pretty thick rubber, right, that's what 412 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,920 Speaker 2: was there to connect it to the other part that 413 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,879 Speaker 2: did come out, So that was to hold the two 414 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,879 Speaker 2: pieces together, and it didn't hold them together. So that 415 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 2: is a black rubbers kind of you know. 416 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 4: The problem yea, even the problem is going to be 417 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 4: the problem is going to be depending upon how what 418 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 4: the diameter is of that plastic tube, and if it's caught, 419 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 4: it depends on how far in you went. If that 420 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 4: tube went down below where the dipstick tube goes into 421 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 4: the transmission of it, it's actually you know, too high 422 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,639 Speaker 4: for fluid, but past the exit point of the tube 423 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,400 Speaker 4: when you went to pull back, you might have caught 424 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 4: the plastic tube on the sharp edge of the of 425 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 4: the outside of that tube, and now it's wedged into it. 426 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 4: It may have to be that it has to go 427 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 4: down a little bit, turned and twisted and then come out. 428 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,120 Speaker 4: The only thing I can think of in my mind, 429 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,200 Speaker 4: because I've been down this road, is do you know 430 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 4: what a hemostat is, like what a doctor would use. 431 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 4: It's a long, like a long right, like a long 432 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 4: thin pair of tweezers. But they make longer ones. And 433 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,880 Speaker 4: you know, I've seen things like this at Harbor Freight. 434 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 4: If you have a Harbor Freight near you, you know 435 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 4: I've seen them. I've seen them in various tool and 436 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 4: supply houses, you know. But to find one seven inches long. 437 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 4: They're out there, but it's gonna take a little hunting. 438 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 4: The easier thing to try, frankly, is just taking it 439 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 4: to your mechanic and having him pulled the dipstick tube 440 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 4: out of the trans nineteen seventy five. 441 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 5: That was a pretty big area there. 442 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 4: It's take out the one bolt holding the dipstick tube 443 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 4: to the back of the bell housing and pop the 444 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 4: tube out of the trans and then you'll be able 445 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 4: to tea I can. 446 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 5: We're certainly get it out. 447 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 3: That loan dipstick? 448 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 2: What did you call it? Where the dipstick goes? I 449 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,120 Speaker 2: can see the end of that. Wee are inserts into 450 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,399 Speaker 2: the trends right, and it looks like, you know, this 451 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 2: old car, you don't have a lot of electrical stuff 452 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 2: in the way. It looks like there is a bolt. 453 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 2: And I'm wondering about maybe just somebody that I know 454 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,959 Speaker 2: of is mechanical, because the two main questions I had 455 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,879 Speaker 2: for you is we're the first one obvious, how can 456 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 2: I get it out? But then also is this right 457 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,399 Speaker 2: that I should not I should not drive it. I 458 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 2: thought maybe I should not even start it and let 459 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 2: it idle, you know, with its setting where it is, 460 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 2: because then everything's going to be getting hot in that 461 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 2: plastic tube. I don't know if that would mess that up? 462 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 5: Well, how how hot you know? 463 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 4: I mean, how far away is your mechanics, you mechanic 464 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 4: two blocks away, five blocks away, twenty minutes, a half hour, 465 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 4: an hour, you know, a short trip to your mechanic. 466 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 4: That tube should withstand heat typical trans temperature this time 467 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 4: of year. Oh maybe it's going to hit two hundred degrees. 468 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 4: I would you know, I would look at that plastic tube. 469 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 5: But think you know, how will that affect it? 470 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 2: That there is maybe somebody in the family that is 471 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 2: mechanical could come out, so I don't have to drive it, right, 472 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 2: take it? 473 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 4: I mean, listen, it's it's always it's always safest. If 474 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,359 Speaker 4: you have any doubt, it's always safest to have it towed. 475 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 4: Just throw it up on a flat bed or on 476 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 4: the back of a on the back of a toe 477 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 4: hook and get it to your mechanic that way. Okay, 478 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 4: But you know the bottom line is all the twisting 479 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,200 Speaker 4: and turning. I'm betting it's jammed on the bottom of 480 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 4: the tube and you're just going to get more and 481 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 4: more frustrated as time goes by. 482 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 5: Can you hurt anything in the transmission? Not likely, It's 483 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:53,680 Speaker 5: not it's not likely. 484 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,880 Speaker 4: Lets hurt No, I'm saying, you know, if we're worried 485 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,400 Speaker 4: about hurting something in the transmission, it's not likely. 486 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:02,440 Speaker 5: If you have to drive it. 487 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 4: Let me ask you this question. When you were checking 488 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,440 Speaker 4: the fluid level to see if it was too high 489 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 4: or too low, the engine was running correct. 490 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to have an autol and with a 491 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:19,879 Speaker 2: neutral and have a hot in out of this is 492 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,680 Speaker 2: probably well That's that's why I was when at the 493 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,200 Speaker 2: time I was checking and I saw it was way 494 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 2: over the admark. But I might have checked it wrong 495 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 2: one time before. I think when the time that I 496 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 2: checked it before that it seemed like it was low 497 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 2: and I added, by mistake, added too much fluid. I 498 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 2: think at that time, maybe I didn't have it hot 499 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 2: the engine. It's supposed to be hot idling in neutral. 500 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, and keep it keep in mind Mary that that 501 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 4: the engine warm idling in neutral or park conversation. It's 502 00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 4: going to vary by a smidge, but not a whole lot. 503 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,640 Speaker 4: Fluid does expect when it's warm. The industry has sort 504 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 4: of got us, you know, weaned on that. But you know, 505 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 4: the difference between a sixteenth of an inch isn't going 506 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 4: to matter a whole heck of a lot. And that's 507 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 4: probably the difference of what it'd be warmed up. So 508 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,399 Speaker 4: I would tell you just to you know, to finish 509 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 4: it here. I would just tell you to have your mechanic, 510 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,879 Speaker 4: your mechanical family member or your friend or whoever it is, 511 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:21,639 Speaker 4: come by. 512 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 3: Look. 513 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,240 Speaker 4: But I think pulling the dipstick tube is the first option. 514 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 4: And whether you do that in the driveway or get 515 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 4: a toe to your mechanic. Either way, it's not going 516 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,159 Speaker 4: to matter. But I'm betting that that plastic tube is 517 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 4: caught on the bottom of the tube out the other side, 518 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 4: and you know that's why you're not going to be 519 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 4: able to pull it up and get it out. Keep 520 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,479 Speaker 4: in mind, when you do pull the tube, you may 521 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 4: lose some fluid, so you want to make sure you 522 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 4: put a drip pan underneath it and be prepared, you know, 523 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 4: have some fluid to refill, because you'll be going through 524 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 4: the refilling. 525 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 5: It's a proper level again all over again. 526 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:49,680 Speaker 3: Mary. 527 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 4: I appreciate the call, and I feel your frustration. If 528 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 4: you need more, you know where to find me. I'm 529 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 4: on an ady in the car doctor, and I'm back 530 00:27:55,600 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 4: right after this. Wow, I can't believe how fast this 531 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 4: hour has sort of flown by as we're getting close 532 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:18,199 Speaker 4: to the end. 533 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:18,880 Speaker 5: But let's real quick. 534 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 4: Let's go to Bill and see what's going on here 535 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 4: in twenty seventeen caravan Bill. Welcome to the car Doctor, sir. 536 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:24,160 Speaker 5: How can I help? 537 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:31,440 Speaker 6: Well, about a year ago, I've been driving for a 538 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 6: while and the engine light would come on the mil 539 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 6: and then it would go out after a while, when 540 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 6: I got home, it's usually i'm thruway driving it'll come on. 541 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 6: So it's been doing this for about a year, and 542 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 6: then all now it's quicker. I don't have to drive 543 00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 6: that far for the engine light to come on. Then 544 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 6: again when I get off the highways or whatever and 545 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 6: I'm home, it goes out. So and like, I'm in 546 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 6: my car right now, and I was turning it on 547 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 6: to prep so I could talk to you through the 548 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 6: bluetooth in the car, and I just turned the knob 549 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 6: to one the first thing, and I saw the engine light, 550 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 6: but then when I turned it to the second, I 551 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 6: didn't see it. And then when I turned the car on, 552 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 6: it disappeared. 553 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 4: We're over analyzing this bill. Has anybody plugged in and 554 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 4: pulled codes? 555 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 6: Plugged in a lot? I haven't been to. I haven't 556 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 6: been to a garage because every time I say I 557 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 6: better go to the garage, it goes out. 558 00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 5: Okay, do you have a regular mechanic? 559 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:01,600 Speaker 2: No? 560 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 4: Okay, so that's first problem. All right, who's servicing the 561 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 4: vehicle oil change? Quick oil change place? 562 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 6: No? I don't go to them because they try to 563 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 6: give you extra things that you know is not wrong. 564 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,720 Speaker 6: So who's one place. I swear to God, one place 565 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 6: pulled out this thing, and I said, I don't know 566 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 6: where you got that, but put it back in, right, 567 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 6: So I go to just a regular garage. 568 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 5: Okay? So, so when was the last time you were 569 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 5: at the regular garage? 570 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 4: Because if this has been going on for a year, 571 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 4: by my account, you would do at least one, if 572 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 4: not two, oil changes, depending on mileage. 573 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 6: I did have an oil change about six months ago. 574 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,719 Speaker 5: Okay, So guess what you're doing again? By time? How 575 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 5: many miles have you gone in six months? 576 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 3: Oh? 577 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,520 Speaker 6: Maybe five thousand miles? 578 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 5: Okay, So you do for an oil change by my book? 579 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 4: All right, So and and and the reason I say 580 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,480 Speaker 4: that is because develop and this is an important piece 581 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 4: of automotive order repair. All right, the garage you're going to? 582 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 4: Do you trust them? 583 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 6: Oh? Yeah? 584 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 5: Okay? So have you mentioned this about the check engine 585 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 5: like going on and off to them before? 586 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 6: No? 587 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 5: All right, you should, no, you should? 588 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 4: Well, yeah, but understand this. Do you ever go to 589 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,040 Speaker 4: the doctor for your physical for your annual checkup? What 590 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 4: do they always ask you? In the past year, how 591 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 4: have things been? 592 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 5: Do you have any aches? Pains? 593 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 4: Do you get up does your back hurt? Do you 594 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 4: you know, if you walk this way, does that hurt? 595 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 4: If right, they're always asking you about things that happened 596 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:44,200 Speaker 4: in the past. Mechanics are the same way. Well maybe 597 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 4: maybe I'm starting to think that way to tell you 598 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 4: the truth, brother, But my point becomes that there should 599 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 4: be something in history. If the fault happened today on 600 00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:00,479 Speaker 4: the weekend, Monday, there should be something in history, all right, 601 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 4: And if there isn't, I would encourage you to ask 602 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 4: your mechanic to go for a ride with his scan 603 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 4: tool in hand, and when the light comes on, read 604 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 4: the fault code, see what's going on. Okay, everybody, Everybody 605 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 4: may start, well, then you're going to the wrong mechanic, 606 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 4: a mechanic in this day and age that does not 607 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 4: have a diagnostic scan tool. 608 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 5: I'm not talking brands. I'm just saying something. He's that 609 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 5: he's not a well equipped shop. 610 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,080 Speaker 4: He's basically out of the stone age, brother, and it's 611 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 4: it's it's not gonna you know, we might as well 612 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 4: just start hitting things with hammers because nothing's gonna. 613 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 5: Fix that vehicle, all right, all right? 614 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:45,080 Speaker 4: You know, my point becomes that going and talking to 615 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 4: your mechanic at that oil change. It should be a 616 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 4: conversation about you know, this happened yesterday, this happened two 617 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 4: weeks ago. The last words out of my mouth that 618 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:58,640 Speaker 4: every oil change, every customer is do you have any comments, questions, concerns, complaints, 619 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 4: How has the vehicle been in the last six months, 620 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 4: three months, four months, or whatever it's been since. 621 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:03,240 Speaker 5: I've seen you. 622 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,920 Speaker 4: Let an automotive professional do their job. Go to your mechanics, 623 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:08,720 Speaker 4: say hey, this is what's going on. 624 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 5: Can you scan it? 625 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 4: See what he comes back to you with. Let him 626 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 4: get you some information. Call me if you need more. 627 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,239 Speaker 4: A five, five, five six O nine nine zero zero. 628 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 4: The car Doctor's coming back right after this. 629 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 6: She's real. Find my formal, Nice, she's real, find my 630 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 6: form nine, my fall. 631 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,479 Speaker 5: I want to talk to you about Charlie. 632 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,480 Speaker 4: And as we close out the show this week, Charlie 633 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 4: drives a twenty ten Lincoln MKZ nice older gentleman loves 634 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:45,280 Speaker 4: this car to death. 635 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:46,520 Speaker 5: I mean you can see that. 636 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 4: There's just, you know, there's a passion for this car 637 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:54,640 Speaker 4: that Charlie has and he just keeps fixing it. And 638 00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 4: you know twenty ten wasn't exactly yesterday think about it. 639 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:03,280 Speaker 4: A twenty ten Lincoln is fourteen going on fifteen years old, 640 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 4: and we've worked on the car since it was just 641 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,160 Speaker 4: about new. I think Charlie came to us when it 642 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 4: was somewhere around twenty twelve, twenty thirteen. So we were 643 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,080 Speaker 4: working on the car a good long time, and I'm 644 00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,360 Speaker 4: seeing the parts shortage start to grip this vehicle. 645 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:20,240 Speaker 5: You know, I was shocked. 646 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,680 Speaker 4: The car needed an air conditioning compressor this week and 647 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 4: Ford stopped making them. There's no more manufacturing for a 648 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:28,200 Speaker 4: twenty ten Lincoln. 649 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:29,440 Speaker 7: And I can remember that. 650 00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,279 Speaker 4: I remember when I started working on this car, and 651 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:36,399 Speaker 4: I'm thinking about the insanity of the disappearing parts and how, 652 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,439 Speaker 4: you know, more and more fall by the wayside. 653 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:42,239 Speaker 7: And the shame of it is. 654 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 5: There's nothing really wrong with this vehicle. 655 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,120 Speaker 4: It's just old and we're just going to be forced 656 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:52,799 Speaker 4: into newer, more electronic laden, you know, more to make more, 657 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,160 Speaker 4: to deal with more, to more expense. So just love 658 00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,239 Speaker 4: your car, hold it deer, be passionate about it, like early, 659 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 4: and find yourself a good mechanic. 660 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 5: We did get him an AC compressor. Until the next time. 661 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,800 Speaker 4: I'm Ronningenie and the car Doctor good mechanics aren't expensive, 662 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:08,360 Speaker 4: they're priceless see y